Super-rich developers are hard at work creating properties in North Carolina, fully aware that, in all probability, by the turn of the century, those properties will no longer exist. The level of dishonesty from Republican officials can only be described as TEAbuggery!
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission has found a solution to the political impasse posed by the conflict between science, which predicts the acceleration of sea level rise as the glaciers of western Antarctica collapse into the Southern Ocean, and Republican, money-driven politics tied to coastal development. The Coastal Commission voted to ignore long-term sea level rise. The Commission voted, with one lone dissent, to limit the period of consideration of sea level rise to 30 years. Keeping the period to 30 years allowed the Commission to avoid considering the consequences of the collapse of west Antarctic glaciers, the speed up of the melting of Greenland’s ice cap and the slowing of the Gulf Stream. This vote will end the conflict between the Republican dominated state legislature and the Commission that happened in 2010 when the Commission’s panel of experts predicted as much as 5 feet of sea level rise by 2100. The legislature rejected that report and prohibited state and local government offices from considering the possibility that sea level rise would accelerate… [emphasis added]
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I hope that those new properties the millionaires, that own the Republicans, are selling come with SCUBA gear!
Do people in America know the old saw that (incorrectly) remembers Canute (King Knut of Denmark, England and parts of Norway) saying he could hold back the waves as he was such a great king? (In fact the king was surrounded by sycophants who said he could do anything in the world, and he pointed out to them that he could not, and that only God ruled the waves, and since they denied this, he proved it by sitting in his chair waiting for the waves to come in….) – sounds as though the North Carolina dimwits think that they are great enough to control the winds and weather – I hope they realise they aren't before it is too late for their populace! Wasn't it this bunch of lackwits who decided to vote out the possibility of global warming a while ago?
The difference is thet the modern day Canute will not be sitting in the taph of the waves. His throne will be in a gated hilltop estate.
We have heard of King Canute, at least when I was in schol (and that's how we spelled it then). We did hear it the wrong way round, as often happens when Republican types are engaging in projection. But either way, paticularly the right way, it is apt for this. I don't suppose it would do any good to point out that McCrory is not King Arthur and North Carolina is not Camelot – he just wouldn't believe it. I would like for Senator Kay Hagan to be re-elected, though; not that she is perfect, far from it, but the Republicans are spending so much money to get her out she must be doing something right.
I hope the good citizens of North Carolina have brains enough to ignore them. But probably not since they elected the TeapublicanTs who appoint these commissions. In that case, the smart ones can get out and the sheeple get what they deserve. They asked for it.
I think this rather summarises the whole story. Republicans didn't think FEMA was necessary when it came to Hurricane Katrina or Super Storm Sandy. But just wait until the North Carolina coast is covered in sea water and the wealthy "water front" property owners demand help. I would love to be the one to tell them "pound sand!"
Stupid is as stupid does. Any one who buys such property is not the brightest bulb on the block.
Not a thing from the current poliical hacks in NC is surprising. I hope the people who were doing moral MOndays are still working at trying to revise some of the idiocies that have been perpetrated on them.
Thanks all. Note the help they will call fore isthe same help they tried to deny blue states with storm damage. Then when they get help, they will steal it, like PIGnocchio did.
My Veteran Buddy live there but, I hate to talk politics to him…